The following represents some of the references, services, and tools available to help build hardware that is optimized to work with Windows operating systems.
CardBus host controllers and Windows compatibility white paper
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/busbios/
PC Card Controller Device Class Power Management Reference Specification, Version 1.0
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/onnow.htm
PC Card diagnostic utility and white papers
Microsoft provides a diagnostic utility that supports multiple voltage cards, multifunction child cards, and the new device ID mechanism, and that can be used to help design or verify CIS for use with PC Card support under Windows. This utility (Dtpl.exe), plus white papers related to PC Card implementations under Windows operating systems, is available on the web site at http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/busbios/.
PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification, Revision 1.0
PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 2.1 (PCI 2.1)
PCI SIG
Phone: (800) 433-5177
http://www.pcisig.com
PCMCIA standards, including PC Card Standard Guidelines and PCI to PCMCIA CardBus Bridge Register Description (Yenta specification)
PCMCIA
2635 North First Street, Suite 209
San Jose, CA 95134 USA
Phone: (408) 433-2273
Fax: (408) 433-9558
E-mail: office@pcmcia.org
http://www.pc-card.com/
Windows and Windows NT DDKs
msdn Professional membership